“YOUNG” AND “ATTRACTIVE” DOES NOT EQUATE TO “ELIGIBLE”
January 7, 2012
Dear Editor:
The following is my response to an editorial promoting Sen. Marco Rubio as a vice-presidential candidate:
Dear Ms Parker;
With reference to your thoughtful column appearing today in the Chicago Tribune, please review the attached open letter from Sharon Rondeau of the Post&Email News.
You may want to reconsider touting Senator Rubio for VP since his Cuban parents were not US Citizens at his birth; he can never be a natural born citizen as required for POTUS or VPOTUS under the US Constitution. The good Senator is well aware of this problem.
He is ineligible; there are no exceptions to this Constitutional requirement. Being a US Citizen is insufficient to be eligible for our two highest offices, because the founders wished to prevent a commander in chief with a divided allegiance, very important to a country emerging from a long war with the strongest empire in the world, the British empire. There have been efforts to amend the Constitution but each has gained little traction.
SCOTUS in Minor v Happersett in 1875 defined NBC as born here of two US citizen parents. This ruling has never been amended or re-adjudicated. NBC means what the founders intended. The Senate unanimously concurred in 2008 with SR 511, Clinton and Obama co-sponsoring.
Many tout positions other than this, but none of them are supported by the plain language of the Constitution, legislative history and Court rulings. Few present a case on the merits, but rather demonize patriots as b*****rs for defending the original meaning of the Constitution.
Regards,
Bill
I have been amazed at the number of people convinced being born on American soil
alone instills natural born citizenship status. Trying to correct their understanding of
citizenship only results in the rolling of eyes and shaking heads.
It is my understanding now that even romney cannot prove his N.B.C. status. If nothing
else, at least the obama fraud has begun a more thorough search into the backgrounds
of those seeking office.
Words mean something. This was especially true to the Founders who did not willy-nilly place superfluous words into our founding document over which they carefully deliberated for many months. If our Constitution states that our President must be a “natural born Citizen,” it is clear that the Founders meant the requirement to be more restrictive than just simply being born a citizen. Obviously the qualifier “natural” adds a further important something or the Founders would have simply written “born Citizen.”
If you cross a donkey with a horse, a jackass results. The result is neither a natural born donkey nor a natural born horse. What ensues is an unnatural hybrid, a half-breed mix that is neither completely donkey nor horse and is sterile and unable to reproduce its own kind (let alone a donkey or a horse). I submit to the reader that, politically, our Founders would have considered Obama to be just such a jackass. (Rubio would probably have enough respect for the Constitution to never seek the presidency and would therefore avoid such a rebuke.)
By examining the writings of the Founders, one can clearly see that the intent of the natural born Citizen requirement was to ensure that our Commander-in-Chief be born with sole, exclusive allegiance to the country that was to entrust him with its command. Obama, by his own admission, was born equally a citizen of Great Britain as recognized by US treaty and law. It is insanity to suggest that the Founders would have ever intended that such a person, born with equal allegiance to their former bloody enemy, be given command of their own military forces.
When two horses mate it takes no law to ensure that they do not produce a dog or a donkey. It is by nature that only a horse ensues. That is the clear and obvious meaning of the constitutional phrase “natural born.” To produce a Citizen by nature and nature alone (no law required) requires two parents who themselves are resident Citizens. This was the Founders’ understanding in their use and inclusion of the phrase, natural born Citizen.
Yes, words truly do mean something.
Great response, you nailed it, no exceptions, the U.S. Constitution is the Supreme Law of the land, always was and aways will be, may the good Lord be our guardian.